Leveraging Open-Source Communities for Professional Development

Before I discovered the beauty of coding…

How do you learn data science?


  • Masters in data science

  • Boot camp

  • Learn on the job

  • Learn on your own

Important things needed in a learning journey


Motivation 🙌

Support 🩼


…the most important things in a learning journey and the difficult things to find.

Finding a way out

Open source communities

Public Communities


LinkedIn

Twitter

Mastodon

Private communities


R-ladies

Women Who Code (WWCode)

R for Data Science (R4DS)

Data Visualization Society

Observable

Posit

How to leverage those resources?


  • Follow social media pages of private communities

  • Join slack channels of private open sources communities

  • Follow accounts and pages of companies like posit and observable and their community groups.

  • Determine your career path! Build a Career in Data Science book and podcast

  • Follow events, workshops, courses that relate to your career path

How to leverage those resources?

  • Follow linkedin pages like the data analysis linkedin page and the data analytics study group

  • Look out for contributors, community leaders and events participants, follow them on social media

  • Podcasts are great resources to stay up to date with industry and get introduced to industry leaders and learn from their experiences.

  • Engage in online platforms. Ask questions and answer questions. Make your work public!

  • Finally, reach out to people!

Thank you!